CAIRO - The new pope of Egypt's Orthodox Coptic church has been enthroned. Pope Tawadros, 60, was elected earlier this month, but the televised official enthronement ceremony was held yesterday at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo. He replaced Shenouda, who died in March after leading the ancient church for 40 years. Egypt's Christians make up about 10 per cent of the nation's estimated 83 million people. AP
NEW ORLEANS - The company that owns an oil platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico has vowed to continue searching for a second missing worker after a body was recovered near the site. The remains were found on Saturday night by divers hired by Houston-based Black Elk Energy after the Coast Guard has suspended a search. AP
FREETOWN - Voters flocked to the polls in Sierra Leone on Saturday in a presidential vote that will see the winning party handed stewardship of a lucrative mining boom a decade after the end of the country's devastating civil war. Turnout was reported to be high in the ballot, seen as a test of the nation's recovery following an 11-year conflict that left 120,000 dead and many mutilated by rebels. AFP